Hollywood Screenwriter Turned Author Mylo Carbia Surprises Critics With Mainstream #1 Bestseller
Controversial horror
novel debuts as #1 Bestseller in New Releases and #1 Bestseller in American
Horror weeks before it's official release date of October 13, 2015.
Every now and then a novel will break out of its genre. Remember
the masses who never read erotica until Fifty Shades of Grey? Well once again, that phenomena is here
with The Raping of Ava DeSantis by Hollywood screenwriter, Mylo Carbia.
Set in 1991 in Atlanta, Georgia, The Raping of Ava DeSantis
tells the story of a working class college student who is brutally attacked by
three wealthy fraternity brothers, then confronted with the decision of a
lifetime: accept money to stay quiet or seek justice with the police. What she
does in response is the basis of this revenge horror story that will have
readers talking for years to come.
The fictional story is based on a screenplay
Hollywood screenwriter Mylo Carbia originally optioned with a major studio, but
was never green-lit due to the gruesome nature of several scenes: particularly
the raping of an eighteen-year-old college student by three wealthy fraternity
brothers which Carbia purposefully skips
in the novel. Instead, the book version follows the aftermath of the event,
including the hush money paid to the victim and the revenge she seeks against
their loved ones decades later.
Called
"The Best Novel Of The Year" by Great-Novels.com and "Horror's
next New York Times Bestseller"
by All Indie Magazine, The Raping of Ava
DeSantis is currently on sale exclusively on Amazon and will be available
in both print and eBook formats in Barnes & Noble, Apple iBooks, Kobo and
30,000 other bookstores worldwide on October
13, 2015.
Buy
it today:
Spaced Out Magazine Releases its best Issue to date!
Spaced Out Magazine’s latest issue gives
a look into some of the best content to date. Including Fashion, Culture,
Music, Entertainment, and Business in one is no easy task but Spaced Out
executes it perfectly by combining all into one.
 |
This issue features indie acts such as:
Relli Rok Omega, Bigg Cap, J Metro, F3LECIA, & more. Having a new layout
and design for this issue gives retailers, what they have been asking for in
the magazine market, and this will be SOM’s first issue more than regional
stores, but nationwide.
Be sure to visit
www.spacedoutmagazine.com
Scriptapalooza Fellowship
The Scriptapalooza Fellowship program was developed to honor dedicated writers and to help accommodate their creative process and skills. Creativity has many interruptions; most of them legitimate reasons, such as dealing with life. Isolating yourself from all of your demands is not an easy task. “This new fellowship will give its recipient the opportunity to focus solely on his/her writing by removing the writer from his/her daily commitments and providing a supportive environment,” says Mark Andrushko, founder of Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition, which has been promoting and discovering writers since 1998.
The Scriptapalooza Fellowship recipient will be awarded a five-day screenwriting retreat in Costa Rica with Award-Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger. The retreat takes place June 10-14, 2016 in Samara, Costa Rica, in a private hotel reserved exclusively for the fellowship recipient and twelve other talented writers. The winning fellowship recipient will enjoy a full curriculum of writing classes, discussions, workshops and feedback sessions taught by Jacob Krueger and senior members of the JK Studio Staff. Each retreat will offer a unique program created specifically for the needs of the writers attending.
The Scriptapalooza Fellowship recipient will receive six months of mentoring from one of our vastly talented industry mentors. The list includes Janet Jeffries of Lawrence Bender Productions, Amanda Marshall of Cold Iron Pictures, Alexia Melocchi of Little Studio Films, Rob Margolies of Different Duck Films, Katrina Nahikian of Bullet Heart, and Breven Warren of Angaelica.
Five additional writers will receive an online writing course, $1000, and a three-month mentorship from one of the above industry professionals. Everyone who applies will receive four to five pages of feedback.
Fellowship applications will only be available from Sept. 1, 2015 to Oct 31, 2015. For more information, visit http://www.scriptapalooza.com/fellowship/
Helping as many writers as possible has always been the foundation and heart of Scriptapalooza, and this mission will be furthered with the Fellowship.
